Photo of the Day 255

Nighttime Igloo, Moriusaq, Greenland, 2006

Photograph by David McLain

Light shines between the ice blocks of an igloo in Moriusaq, Greenland. Igloos are usually dome-shaped and are made of large slabs cut from compacted snow. A skilled native Greenlander can build one in just a couple of hours.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last Days of the Ice Hunters," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)